Sorry its been so long since my last entry, been real busy and haven't even had much of a chance to watch any movies at all. I did watch the classic original on Halloween and it was an unusually enjoyable experience... in a demented sort of way.
This is horror movie making at its most basic, most raw, and most effective. The grainy film, the demented family, the creepy on location sets, the young women with perky breasts in tiny halter tops and short shorts, the ill-fated road trip, and of course leather face. The ultimate B-rate 70's horror flick.
I have to admit that it is uncomfortable to watch because you feel guilty for enjoying your time watching such horror, however, it is not a bloody gore fest you'd expect. It is what it suggested by the scenes on screen that is the most demented. But it is so effectively made at all levels that it is horrifying.
TCM is at first just your better then average 70's slasher movie with young people getting murdered one by one followed by a chase scene where the damsel in distress screams and runs but can never quite get away from the bad guy... (at least leather face looks like he's running fast in most the other movies he is walking slow and she still can't outrun him!). Act 1, as I described, is a stereotypical horror movie, however it is better then most in presenting its horror cliches. However it is during Act 2, the dinner scene, where TCM finds its heart, so to speak, and becomes a classic. It is a scene that is painful to watch because it is brutally long and perfectly done to horrify your senses. It just keeps going and going and you just want it to end, yet you can't look away. I found on second viewing my reaction was not to cover my eyes or get sick, but to laugh because it is upsurd that civilized human being wrote this scene, then filmed it, then edited it, and produced it for other civilized human beings rent and watch all for the sake of entertainment. Yet entertaining it is! A raucous, demented, horrifying, hilarious, and outstanding piece of horror film making... a must see for horror movie fans, as well as fans of the craft of filmmaking.
" Look what your brother did to the door. Ain't he got no pride in his home."
3 out of 5 --> overall
4.5 out of 5 --> within its genre
( I felt two seperate rating were necessary as a cop out because it most deffinately is not a movie for everyone so I couldn't bring myself to giving a high recommendation, but for the effectiveness of conveying what it is trying to convey, however demented, there are few other horror movies that rival it )
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